Syntactic change : toward a theory of historical syntax /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
M. de Gruyter,
1990.
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Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
50. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Preliminaries
- 1.1. The subject-matter of diachronic syntax
- 1.2. The logic of syntactic change
- 1.3. The North Germanic languages and dialects
- 1.4. Theoretical framework
- 1.5. The data
- 2. Explanation and syntactic change
- 2.1. The locus of linguistic change
- 2.2. The meaning of “explanation�
- 2.3. Explaining linguistic change
- 2.4. Motivation and predictability
- 2.5. Formal and functional explanations � a summary
- 3. Functional change
- 3.1. Synchronic variation and diachronic change3.2. Word order typology
- 3.3. The verb-second constraint
- 3.4. The expletive topic
- 4. Formal change
- 4.1. Predicate and argument
- 4.2. Grammatical function and semantic role
- 4.3. Configurationality
- 4.4. Prototypicality
- 5. Some consequences
- 5.1. Case systems
- 5.2. Passive
- 5.3. “Impersonal� constructions
- 5.4. From preposition to verbal particle
- 5.5. The expletive subject
- Notes
- References
- Index